Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Yield Sign, Attention, Long-Term Potentiation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Every time we retrieve a memory we change it in small ways, according to our goals/mood/or environment. Sometimes these alternations are due to our own desires and moods. If there is a gap in our memory our brain might fill it in with something logical or desirable: ex: someone tells a story about a fish they caught. Every time they tell the story, the fish gets bigger. Sometimes information we retrieve is based on a schema (mental blueprint containing common aspects of world), instead of reality. False information inaccurate recollections of an event: ex: experiment done where participants watched a car stop at a yield sign. After the video, participants were given a written description on what happened, and some of the descriptions included false information about the car stopping- saying that the car stopped at a stop sign instead of a yield sign.